As immigrants' rights groups are organizing a work stoppage, economic boycott and marches for May 1, the following experts are available at the University of Florida to provide insight and comment on related topics.
Barry R. Chiswick, distinguished professor and head of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will testify before the full Senate Judiciary Committee April 25.
Vanderbilt University experts are available on the immigration debate.
"AUTUMN IN YALTA: A NOVEL AND THREE STORIES," a new book by acclaimed Jewish-Russian author and former Soviet refusenik David Shrayer-Petrov in collaboration with his son, Boston College author-scholar Maxim D. Shrayer, offers a powerful, poignant voice of Jewish and immigrant fiction.
United States counties that share a border with Mexico continue to struggle with educational achievement, poverty, access to health care and federal crimes, according to a recent study by the University of Texas at El Paso's Institute for Policy and Economic Development.
The ongoing debate over U.S., immigration may be especially stressful for the children of immigrants who are caught in the middle between their parents, who may be in the country legally or illegally, and their American neighbors, says University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) education expert Anarella Cellitti, Ph.D.
In this tip sheet, a University of North Texas political scientist, Mexican-American studies historian, economist and bilingual educator give their views of the ongoing debate on immigration reform.
The growing prevalence of detention as a policy within the U.S. immigration system is strikingly similar to policies of criminal sanctions and mass incarceration used to fight the "war on drugs" in the 1980s, according to University at Buffalo Law School. Professor Teresa A. Miller, who studies the U.S. prison system and teaches immigration law.
A new study found that changes in immigration policy "” especially the Immigration Act of 1990 "” have had a direct effect on the overall skill level of new immigrants. The report also found that legal immigrants today have overall higher skill levels than those of previous decades.
Many Hispanic farmworker families in North Carolina live in inadequate housing that puts them at higher risk of exposure to disease, toxins and overcrowding that can affect their psychological well-being, according to new research by Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
In this media tip sheet, Indiana University experts in law, education and history offer insights into the immigration debate.
In this media tip sheet, Indiana University experts in law, education and history offer insights into the immigration debate.
Harvard Kennedy School of Government Professor George Borjas, often called America's "leading immigration economist," will address the University of California, San Diego Economics Roundtable, May 3, beginning at 7:30 a.m. at the Faculty Club on the UCSD campus.
Does immigration hurt labor's interests? Economics Professor Seth Sanders - the Director of the Maryland Population Research Center - offers his perspective in the following commentary.
As the U.S. Congress considers immigration reform, immigrants continue to move to new areas of the country, raising national awareness of the issue.
Dr. Mark Gibney, UNC Asheville Belk Professor of Humanities is a widely respected international human rights expert and has written a number of books on immigration and refugee policy, He is available for comment on the Senate debate on the first comprehensive rewrite of U.S. immigration laws in a decade.
Chicago is gaining low-income households, including large Latino households, much faster than it is gaining affordable housing, a University of Illinois at Chicago report says. Too much high-end construction has left a growing mismatch between supply and demand.
Security, water issues and economic integration are among the border-related themes to be discussed by a group of renowned scholars from the United States and Mexico during the Lineae Terrarum: International Borders Conference March 27-30.
Alfredo Corchado, Sandra Dibble and Andrew Selee will highlight the importance of digging deeper into border stories and issues during a panel discussion at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1 at the University of Texas at El Paso.
A study by Cornell sociologists Max Pfeffer and Pilar Parra finds that Mexican farmworkers are settling in upstate New York in record numbers, but most are marginalized and not mainstreaming into community life. A growing underclass could lead to unemployment, poverty and other social problems.
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